Thank you for coming here. This is where I continue to create articles regarding my work in Movement Re-Education, Therapy, and orthopedic rehabilitation. If you experience back, neck, shoulder, or wrist pain, or have balance issues, I can help you. If you’re new here, a good place to start is to read my posting below titled “What I Do as a Feldenkrais Practitioner.” The best to you in great health! James, 1003 Wilshire Blvd. Suite #208,Santa Monica, CA, tel. 310-395-1952, jamesspeer@verizon.net

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Saturday, October 3, 2015

With the summer season over and the sun setting earlier, if you have found yourself now working extra hours at the office, and your neck or back aches, as well as discovered other maladies that are manifesting from the accumulation of sitting at your office desk for too long, you may find the article, The Price we pay for sitting too much - New formulas for how long we should spend sitting and standing in a workday, which originally appeared this week in the September 29, 2015 issue of the Wall Street Journal, a helpful read. You can find this interesting article at the following link.:http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-price-we-pay-for-sitting-too-much-1443462015

An increasing number of studies have found that regular exercise doesn’t reduce the risks that come with sedentary behavior, such as sitting.

New research is helping medical experts devise formulas for how long you, as a typical office worker, should spend sitting and standing.

The article elaborates on how studies have found that sedentary behavior, including sitting for extended periods, increases the risk for developing dozens of chronic conditions, from cancer and diabetes to cardiovascular disease and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease.At the same time the article advises against standing in one place for too long.

Although there are no absolutes, every one of us being unique, the article states that, in general, for every half-hour working in an office, people should sit for 20 minutes, stand for eight minutes and then move around and stretch for two minutes.

The article makes the case that standing, in the appropriate amounts, is actually good for you. Even office workers, who may actually be athletes or avid exercisers, but who are relatively sedentary or who sit too much are advised to periodically stand, to take a “standing break”.

If you currently find it uncomfortable to stand, then I am the man for you!

As an Injury Rehab Therapist, I have a background as a Certified Feldenkrais® Practitioner, enabling me to work with you who is experiencing musculoskeletal or orthopedic issues, for instance, if you are having difficulty to perform the “action” of standing, whether it be due to balance or vertigo issues, or back or other joint pain.

Please allow me to guide your body through different ways of learning how to feel comfortable while standing.

I give you the sensory motor experience to be able to stand, sit, or move freely, effortlessly, pleasantly, without strain or discomfort. Say 'Hello' to relaxing, and 'Goodbye' to stiffness and pain!"

Please call me at tel. 310-395-1952 to schedule an appointment for your first step for returning to vitality as nature intended it to be.

It’ll be one of the best and easiest decisions you can make this week!

"If you’re in pain, or your body aches, I give you the sensory motor experience to be able to move freely, effortlessly, pleasantly, without strain or discomfort. Say 'Hello' to relaxing, and 'Goodbye' to stiffness and pain!”

For a video of me demonstrating the wonderful "'2-Minute Feldenkrais® Miracle' to Free Up Your Stiff Neck", go to:

We are all reading and hearing about how our
modern culture is stressful, or, “stressing us out”,

You
don’t have to wait until your neck, back, shoulder, or wrist hurts to see me.
My Feldenkrais® hands-on bodywork can help you
greatly unwind, de-stress, relax, and rejuvenate for you, yourself. You can
eliminate your body tension right now!Go from restless to restful

Bring
your day/week/life into focus

Smooth out the rough
edges

Stop
living on the edge

Turn
your mountains into molehills in under an hour

As one of my clients likes to say, "Even a
Mercedes needs a tune-up".

Call me today to schedule an appointment at
tel. 310-395-1952. It’ll be one of the best and easiest
decisions you can make this week.

"If you’re in pain, or your body aches, I give you
the sensory motor experience to be able to move freely, effortlessly,
pleasantly, without strain or discomfort. Say 'Hello' to relaxing, and 'Goodbye'
to stiffness and pain!"

Wednesday, March 4, 2015

Greetings to you!With our recent
celebration this past week of Chinese Lunar New Year, “Year of the Ram”, I am
reminded how here in beautiful, sunny Southern California (most of the time,
anyway) in just a few weeks, if not already, we will be able to enjoy our
wonderful Southland Springtime accolades.

It’s floating all over the Media and Internet. …

New York Times Bestseller, Dr. Norman Doidge, MD, psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and poet, has
just released his new book (January 2015) appropriately titled, “THE BRAIN'S WAY OF HEALING:Remarkable Discoveries and Recoveries from
the frontiers of Neuroplasticity, and is available in all bookstores as well
as at Dr. Norman Doidge’s website, http://www.normandoidge.com/. Dr.
Norman Doidge’s new book on brain and body neuroplasticity contains two
complete chapters devoted to the merits of Movement and Neuromuscular
Reeducation through The
Feldenkrais Method® and features numerous case studies of patients
suffering from neurological disorders and details how in each case the brain
adapts to compensate for the disabilities of the individual patients, often in
unusual and unexpected ways.

The Brain's Way of
Healing focuses on treating brain injury and illness
through neuroplastic treatments and healing, i.e. Feldenkrais Movement
Re-Education.Dr. Doidge explores cases
where patients alleviated years of chronic pain or recovered from debilitating
strokes or accidents; children on the autistic spectrum or with learning
disorders normalizing; symptoms of multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease,
cerebral palsy, traumatic brain injury, learning disorders, sensory processing
disorders, attention deficit disorder, as well
as balance problems radically
improved, and other near-miracle recoveries.

Even the
prestigious, Salon, the informativenews magazine website, renown for
focusing on U.S.
politics and current affairs, as well as on reviews and articles
about music, books and film, has already featured a wonderful excerpt from Dr.
Doidge’s book titledas:

“She
Will Dance at Her Wedding”:Healing the
girl born without a part of her brain

The
origin of Moshe Feldenkrais’ therapeutic method reads more like a spy thriller
than a neuroscience textbook.

This article can be found at the following link from Salon’s website.:

You may recall Dr. Norman
Doidge’s previous bestseller back in the year 2007 as:

The Brain That Changes
Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain ScienceHaving
previously sold over a million copies, The Brain that Changes Itself,
was chosen by the Dana Brain Foundation’s Journal Cerebrum, from among the
30,000 books on the brain in English, as the best general book on the brain,
and is also currently available in over a hundred countries and over 20
languages.

If
this all sounds (wonderfully) overwhelming to you, as an Injury Rehab
Therapist, with over 20 years experience being a Certified
Feldenkrais Practitioner, I can greatly help you or a loved one with your
neurological or orthopedic condition.

Wearing my hat as a
Feldenkrais practitioner, I will give to you the sensory motor experience of
what it feels like to move easily, effortlessly and comfortably in all of your
life’s activities and functions.

Please feel free to ask me more about how I can help you at tel. 310-395-1952.

Health is so important.After all, as my
business logo since the early 1990’s declares:

“Health
is All that Matters!”

All the best to you for a
wonderful Chinese Lunar New Year, "Year of the Ram"!

About Me

After a 10-year career with Eastman Kodak Co. as a mechanical engineer, in 1994, I completed the 4-year Feldenkrais® Professional Training Program for Movement Reeducation and Therapy. I have twice presented Feldenkrais for the International Association of Fitness Professionals (IDEA) at their World Fitness Expo & Conventions. I treat all patients having neurological or orthopedic conditions, improving their mobility and action, for a pain-free, comfortable lifestyle.
As a keyboardist, as well as former all-state trumpet player and all-county cross-country runner, I also enjoy working with musicians and athletes, for enlarging their body and self awareness to enhance performance.
As a Feldenkrais practitioner, using my hands-on tactical feedback, I help to expand a client's kinesthetic, or bodily, awareness of themselves. By a person encompassing more of themselves, rather, having a greater self-image, pain or discomfort is eliminated.
James Speer, Guild-Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner®,
1003 Wilshire Blvd. Suites #203, 208,
Santa Monica, CA 90401, tel. 310-395-1952
www.feldenkraisjamesspeer.com
"Health Is All that Matters!"